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Land administrator gets death for embezzlement

A former director of Shijiazhuang Land and Resource Bureau was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve on charges of corruption by the Hebei Higher People's Court yesterday.

Gu Qizhang also had all his personal assets confiscated after the verdict, Hebei Youth Daily reported.

Police found Gu and his accomplices had embezzled 61.56 million yuan (US$9.24million) between 2005 and 2009 when he was the bureau director. Of the total, 13.8 million yuan went into Gu's pocket. All the embezzled money has been retrieved.

His three accomplices, all officials of Gaoyi County of Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei Province, received prison sentences yesterday.

Fu Sulin was sentenced to life imprisonment. Zhao Xianzhen and Shi Dongsheng were sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment.



 

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